When my wife and I first got together, she basically started living with me immediately. After just a few months together, we were renting a house together. And we had NO money. We both worked, but we had shit jobs. We had to get a place because I was being kicked out of my home and she was sleeping on a couch.
Because we had no money, we ate a lot of crap food because it was cheap. It’s what caused us to balloon up to where we are now instead of where we were when we met, which was much slimmer. But still fat. Cause, you know, food.
Anyway, we bought a lot of Ramen noodles and when we got sick of eating them we discovered we had a lot of them left, and random stuff in the fridge. My wife, much to her genius, threw some shit together in a pot and called it Monster Mash.
The thing about Monster Mash, and you really have to indulge this concept, is you never make it the same way twice. Or, you can make it the same way every time if you find a recipe you like. The idea here is, you find what you have and throw it all in the pot. Just make sure the flavors mix well, otherwise you’re wasting what little food you have. Considering you make this when you have little food, or little money to buy food.
I’m not going to tell you how we originally made it, because that was years ago and I forgot. What I will tell you is how we like to make it now, should we ever decide to have it for old time’s sake.
First, you start with Ramen noodles.
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